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Tracing the origins and signatures of selection of antifolate resistance in island populations of Plasmodium falciparum
BACKGROUND: Resistance of the malaria parasite Plasmodium falciparum to sulfadoxine-pyrimethamine (SP) has evolved worldwide. In the archipelago of São Tomé and Principe (STP), West Africa, although SP resistance is highly prevalent the drug is still in use in particular circumstances. To address th...
Autores principales: | Salgueiro, Patrícia, Vicente, José L, Ferreira, Conceição, Teófilo, Vânia, Galvão, André, do Rosário, Virgílio E, Cravo, Pedro, Pinto, João |
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Formato: | Texto |
Lenguaje: | English |
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BioMed Central
2010
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Acceso en línea: | https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pmc/articles/PMC2898820/ https://www.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/pubmed/20534146 http://dx.doi.org/10.1186/1471-2334-10-163 |
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